Through my eyes I see a world that has gone astray. The memories that I have about how my world use to be, when I was a child growing up, seems to tell a different story as to how my personal poverty level affected my total being.
Today many things have changed when it comes to being able to support ourselves and when you start adding other people to the mix it becomes even more harder to stay within a budget.
As a child I didn't understand the difference between my poor family and families who had plenty of money. As I became older I began to realize that they didn't have to worry everyday about not having enough food to eat like I did.
I will forever be grateful for my mom's family (my gram, uncles and aunts) for helping to take some of the pain away that I felt in my stomach when I had gone too long without food.
Government programs to help the poor were just as useless back then as they are today because their understanding of people in poverty is not based on the reality of the situation at hand.
The fact that people in poverty are now being treated like they are drug addicts and are forced to take a piss test before they will even be considered to receive welfare just goes to show you what they actually think about poor people in general.
Although I wasn't able to learn as well as others who shared the same classroom as I did because of an undetected learning disability, which I finally got a handle on in my adult life (much later than I would have liked), I have made it one of my top priorities to get it under control, without taking unhealthy pharma medications.
I had a child who also suffers from the same learning disability who is now in his 20's. Although I made the decision, when he was a child, not to give him medication, he made the decision, when he was an adult, to take the medication.
With that said, I tried to do better for my children compared to how I grew up and I can honestly say that they never went without food and always had cool looking clothes to wear.
Sadly though I am not sure how well they will be able to do for their families because of the constant economic doom that keeps popping up its ugly head every time we turn around.
With the way that the economy has been taking, what seems like, endless dives with very little safety nets left to keep it falsely propped up, it remains to be seen if the people in office will finally take their heads out of the billionaires asses, and try to save what is left of the economic ruins that the billionaires have created.
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